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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. MAY 24, 1935 8 The People SnafiF DENIAL OF INDUSTRIAL LOANS er Became of Greed. New Committee KEEPS WORKERS IN POVERTY Of 9 Appointed that we owe most of the institutions of which Americans are most WIIAT WE OWE TO ORGANIZED LABOR I pround. This early labor movement de- - could be remediedl No doubt these (Continued from Page 1) A new committee of nine, to certain institution, of this its fundamental se- V? Yfcf Leaver, bank clerk, who now sits tactics are being used without the continue and enlarge investigations which . It Amr , plank. average f patriotic j inwith Mr. Smith in judgment on knowledge of the officials of the of Utah government undertaken by lean is very proud. He boasts TeAJhm ij dustrial loans submitted to the RFC in Washington, or th6 Presiwas appoint- of the free school system, univer- - fateAdf LMrlVabor moJe such bodies, previous LeavRFC by the people of Utah. dent or his advisors. We have gone Wednesday under an act of the sal suffrage, mechanics lien law, ers total experience, it is said, I over several applications for indus- - ed 1935 freedom of debtors from imprison- legislature. rtjorri consists of being a bank teller, but trial loans from the RFC, especial The members: ment, and numerous other things trades nfnZZn still Mr. Smith allows him to pass ly we know something about the against lm- to be character-- 1 in-- 1 State Senators George M. Miller that an c or of the application upon such important things as Monay and that Kinney for debt, of a Efr.. country. If this prisonment dustrial loans. It is said that Mr. I Coal Co., also the loan application (D., Carbon); Hugh M. Woodward of dark the agea disappeared. were I Smith gets a salary of $400 a of William Payne of Richfield, or (D., Utah), and Ira A. JIuggins same average American made a mechanics lien I se(D., Weber), appointed by Presi asked when these rights were , month, and it was remarked that the Jumbo Plaster Co. nother of their fudamen. he gets this salary for doing noth-- 1 On the Monay application,' we dent Herbert B. Maw of the state ,du,r' prbably and the laborer to-ital wC,hnW0?1f demands, ing, but even at that, perhaps he have a complete file of the data, senate. onary war, and he d t his comes nearer to earning his salary engineers reports, statistics, etc. Heber would add that they were made wa'es to the8C security State Representatives valiant I fighters And from all that we know about Bennion, Jr., (D., Daggett); Stan- certain by the adoption of the I than his employe, Leaver, in our mentioned never wko I are committee local RFC is a There the property we are free in saying ley N. Child (D., Salt Lake), and constitution of the United States. sch0ol histories. which passes upon all applications that it would be a good risk and Milton Twitchell But the constitution dealt with (D., Garfield), Not only did they insist upon for RFC loans. Among the per- would provide K. none of not was Walter these It appointed by things. Speaker the abolition of imprisonment for some are sonnel of this committee many men. itself a state of house the of vote, repadopted by majority on but they secured the enacGranger men debt, most of the reactionary Favored Few had such a vote been required ment 0f a law exempting a cer-- it resentatives. ted Main street. As a matter of fact, Regarding the application of the would never have been adopted. I tain minimum of property from Mrs. Joshua Greenwood, pre3i this committee is made up mostly I Jumbo Plaster Co., we might say of men who were appointed during that this concern would be in com- - dent of the womens legislative For a generation after adoption seizure for debt, and such laws the Hoover administration. Some petition with the Nephi Plaster Co., council; Athol Rawlins, Salt Lake there was not universal suffrage, have remained upon the statute of the men on the local committee, I controlled by local banking inter-- 1 City attorney, and Herbert E Although Thomas Jefferson was I hooks ever since, due to their reactionary training, I ests. The Jumbo Plaster Co. had I Smith, Ogden realtor, appointed by president for eight years of this I Backed by the pioneer workers are incapable of working with I a fjne record of earnings up until I Governor Henry H. Blood. time, there is no record that the I who had gone to the far west Roosevelt or President in keeping the mill was destroyed by fire more The committee is empowered to great father of all the Democrats I and there established state gov-evf re an f tried to secure any of these I emments more democratic than P !iCyrpfmp a year fso. Since the fire, investigate government of the fan I recovery, (the company has fought a desper- state and all its subdivisions; in riabS; any previously known, these same . I While and he was rehabilitatfor workers secured president, school to sub and organized eluding districts, I ed by aninTw,erf RFC loan. This fight debtor a if versal afterward, years and examine witnesses ancj suffrage and the election have heard conversations of someihas been made 0dds of I records the even- a few I of members of the legislature by to was unable agalnst pay of the members of the Utah RFC the reactionaries on the Utah RFC It is charged with collecting and cents he was thrown into jail, I districts instead of upon a committee, that they ridicule Pres-- 1 committee. he was left to rot or starve I eral ticket, as had been the case I analyzing statistical information ident Roosevelt. have is it good Many loans, said, until the and debt was paid. Mani-- 1 in many states before, taxation of affecting property It is only recently that an arti-lh- g turned dowm by this commit-cl- e other he no means of paying I Look over this list of measures of and had wealth income, types festly appeared in the local press, tee evidently because the the speech made by one cants were not in the favor of the with a view to effecting a more it while in jail, so such a sen-- 1 that make up almost the whole of equitable distribution of the f tax tence might easily be for life. In I what we have of liberty today, member of the RFC committee of powers-that-bburden. New York hundreds of poor land remember that not one of Utah. Those of us who read the In fact, as far as we know, there After these investigations the debtors wereCity huddled together I them was even urged with any report of this gentlemans speech, has been only one industrial loan committee is directed to prepare without fire or food know that it was the antithesis of made in this state. throughout I enthusiasm by those whom our This, according bills to carry out its recommenda- the the New Deal. call the founders of year, depending for the latter I text-booto all reports, is the worst record tions. ' The personnel of the local RFC of socle-- 1 our liberty There were upon in charity. state Union. the makes Washington, Jeffer-tie-s It One duty of the comE. 0. it any committee is as follows: ob-- 1 and their son, Adams, their like, to officials in Washing- mittee important for organized having appear is to study methods of deHoward, of the Walker Bank and ton that Utah has no I Remember all this and you will the collection with of funds indusject good Trust Co.; 0. W. Adams, of the trial loan risks. It is said that the veloping Utahs coal industry, which to feed these debtors. The I realize that tenfold more was done Utah State National Bank; Chas. only industrial loan that has been finding new uses for coal and new members of these societies would I for liberty by these unknown and cheaper mining methods. Smith, of the First National Bank; made was to a local I roes of the comhave of first labor movement candy thought abolishing A principal duty of the commitThomas M. Taylor, of the Farmers I than which owed certain banks in the all for debt the valiant warriors pany imprisonment by any tee, and one which is expected to and Merchants Bank of Provo; Salt Lake I of considerable more than City modern the money. charitable is most command Lexington, Valley Forge and popular interest, William J. of the Amer-- 1 I Yorktown, to The KinMy Coal Co- - propertJr j3 to would think of society of abolishing the say nothing of the advisability I investigate I Carbon county. Scofield, the who which to S' it politicians poverty real and pretends gathered at Phila-reliev- e. propJ. Culbertson, I This is the only virgin coal proper- exempting taxation. personal to formulate the document delphia from National Bank; Leon Hampton, of ty in that area which could be erty constitution of the Between 1825 and 1840 there I e. Callc the Crane Co., and Willard Scow-crof- t, worked profitably. The property is arose the first organized labor I United States, of the John Scowcroft & controlled who William by Monay, TABLOIDS LABOR Sons Co., of Ogden. Yet the text-boomovement in the United States. may be has applied to the RFC for a $50,-00- 0 Liberals Thre It grew so strong that it had a searched in vain for a single line Only loan. Of the personnel of the commit(Continued from Page 7) daily paper in New York and concerning these real fathers of Needs Relief tee, three are known to be liberal elected one man to the New York American liberty. the 1 If loan of were to the house rep-Monay it approved transferred and in sympathy with the efforts and . granted, it would mean that resentatives where it is expected legislature. and plans of the President to reand employment would to receive favorable consideration. was to movement It labor this prosperity Read the ads in The Utah Labor habilitate industry in this country increase for the ownmen more than other one News. working thing1 any so that it may absorb the unemThe Missouri legislature has ening their homes in the town of Scoployed into private industry. The field. At the the an old age pension bill. It time, acted present three are Messrs. Culbertson, of town the is without population provides pensions up to $30 a Hampton, and Scowcroft. employment. month for indigent persons over It is claimed that some members According to reports of the gov- 70. of the committee are so bitterly ernment relief the populaopposed to the Roosevelt adminis- tion of Scofieldagencies is without employA permanent system of unemtration hat they have turned down ment on and relief. government ployment. insurance for working applications for industrial loans when they knew that the loan was And such relief is costing the gov- men and women in New York state and county agen- state was established when Govergood. Other loans which would ernment, more than $18,000 a year. cies, nor Lehman signed the Byme-Ki- ll set up industries competing with to stands It reason the if that the friends and patrons of the grew bill which was enacted by the banks controlled by some of these RFC or some other government State legislature a few days before would loan sufficient money the session adj'oumed. gentlemen, have been deliberately agency to open up a new mine such as the turned down in order to prevent Monay property, and establish the Father Maguire demands an incompetition with dividend-payin- g coal industry in the Scofield discontrolled companies vestigation by the textile labor by themselves trict, employment would be provid- relations and their friends. board of the amazing sitIt seems that the gentlemen ed for the citizens of the town, which exists in Kankakee, uation and it would permit them to be- 111., of the Bear serving on the RFC committee and come and Brandheadquarters again and sets forth passing on RFC loans in Utah do mills, hosiery citizens. not give any consideration about The Utah Labor News is inter- a detailed description of conditions the state, its people, nor the Presnow existing at the Bear Brand ident of the United States. They ested in the welfare of the people. mills. The Bear Brand hosiery is even seem to lack the honor to re- It is interested in the development notoriously unfair to labor. of Utahs resources. And because sign their positions on the committee as long as they can use it to of this interest, we are telling this The Tenants Revenge story so that the people of Utah help destroy the administration. It and The magistrate looked severely Utahs congressional delega- at is such activities as these which d defendant. the small, have brought about chaos, and tion in Washington, and all of the landlord So kicked you your RFC officials in the nations capital they are pitiful examples of local Did said. he downstairs, you imknow reathe truths and the selfishness and greed, and demon- may within the was that agine rights strate the indifference toward the sons why Utah is not making of a tenant? and industrial loan progress why welfare of the people by those on Ill my agreement and Main street who have formed the applications from Utah are practi- show it bring to you, said the little man, habit of dictatorship of the finan- cally nil. and Ill still redder, The editor of the Utah Labor growing cial, industrial, and political polime that with wager youll agree News does not stand in favor with cies of Utah. in to he anything prohibit forgot The only cooperation they seem the Main street powrers, because he that lease I had a to do the right to know anything about, is just believes in a j'ust and a square deal very first chance I got! among themselves, in their own to all the people of Utah. And because the editor points out these way, and for their own purposes. More representation of injustices and inequalities he is labor in adequate Lingering Applications the NRA would have preThere have been a number of ap- marked form ostracism by the selfvented strikes. Union recogplications made for industrial loans ish and greedy financial and po- nition ismany a protection to employers in Utah. And there are still some litical leaders who now control the as well as workers. Policing of inof these applications pending. And destinies of this state. dustry by labor would be a valuashould these be granted, much Regardless of the outcome, our ble contribution to recovery. Mrs. work could be created without hurt- first and only duty is to the people E. N. Herrick, NRA official. These loans, if of this state, and The Utah Labor ing anybody. The Utah Labor News is the only granted, would start wheels turn- News shall continue to expose in several industries, and pro- these irregularities as we find Whether we are on the gold ing bona fide labor paper in Utah vide food for the mouths of hungry them. standard or not, every Union-mad- e people on the relief rolls, and redollar we admitted to the U. S. mails as a newspaper for UNION lieve the tax burden of the counDont let anyone tell you, Its LABEL goods spend makes the Amertry. There should be some way j'ust as good. There are no substi- ican dollar rise on foreign exwhereby this bad situation in Utah tutes for the UNION LABEL,! change. J rel-uti- . ng er uni-ma- ny - gen-whe- re appli-coven- ng e. . ks he-nev- ,k?r5n,f; ks toff'ttfln 0X0 self-respecti- ng self-sustaini- ng red-face- Special for a short time only one . "5 Ife ai? er |